Lining for barrels.



No. 642,061. Patentd'l an. 30, 1900.

J. ARKELL. LINING FUR BABRELS.

(Application filed Nov. 8, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNlTlED STATES PATENT OFFICE JAMES ARKELL, OF CANAJOHARIE, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MARY F. BURNAP, OF SAME PLACE.

LINING FOR 'BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,061, dated January 30, 1900.

Application filed November 8, 1898- Serial No. 695,877- (No model.)

To (0Z4 whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES ARKELL, a resident of Canajoharie, in the county of Montgomery and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lin ings for Barrels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in linings for barrels.

Heretofore it has been the custom to line barrels for containing flour, sugar, and similar fine materials with paper to prevent the contents of the barrel from sifting outbetween the staves, especially when the staves have become very dry, and on account of contraction of the wood cause spaces to appear between them. In some cases paper has been placed in the barrel in loose sheets, but experience has shown that the material will find its way between these sheets. It has also been proposed to line the barrels with bags having their lower ends closed and tied in a manner quite similar to that of tying the mouth of a flour or meal sack. This method of lining a barrel is open to serious objections and does not obviate the wasting or sifting out of the contents of the barrel. It has been found in practice that when the bottom of the bag lining is tied in the manner above mentioned it will not only cause the presence of a large and bunglesome knot or enlargement in the bottom of the barrel, but it cannot be tied tight enough without rupturing the paper to prevent the fine material from sifting through it and finding its way between the bag and staves and finally out through the spaces between the latter. Furthermore, the bags having tied ends have been made of smooth inelastic paper, and although the bags have been made quite large, in order to make them conform to and completely fill the barrel,still experience has shown that the bottom portion of the bag has been subjected to great strain in an attempt to conform itself to the bottom and sides of the barrel when the flour or other material is forced thereinto, resulting in rupturing the bag or lining and permitting the escape of its contents.

It is the object of my present invention to obviate the defects and objectionable features above alluded to and to so construct a barrellining that it will conform itself closely to the sides and bottom of the barrel without danger of rupture when the flour or other material is placed therein.

With this object in View the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a barrel having my improved lining therein. Fig. 2 is a view of the blank from which the lining is made. Fig. 3 is a View of the lining before it is placed in the barrel. 7

In constructing my improved lining I take a sheet of elastic paper-viz., paper which has been crinkled, corrugated, or roughened, or otherwise made elasticand cut it to the shape shown in Fig. 2 and then stitch the two edges together, as shown in Fig.3. The curved lower ends of the bag are then stitched together, when the lining will be ready for in sertion into the barrel. By stitching the edges of the bag or lining rather than securing them by paste the elasticity of the united edges will be preserved. The lining is made somewhat longer than the depth of the barrel, so that when the barrel is filled and the bottom of the lining is fiat on the bottom of the barrel the upper end of the lining will extend to or slightly beyond the top of the barrel.

When the material is packed into the barrel, the elasticity of the paper lining will permit the latter to expand and conform itself closely to the interior Wall of the barrel without danger of rupturing the paper; but the most important feature of my invention is the curved form of the bottom of the lining of the barrel. When the material is packed into the barrel, the curved bottom of the lining will buckle somewhat at the center, as shown at a, and the balance of said bottom will lie fiat on the bottom of the barrel. The buckling in the center of the bottom of the lining will be quite small, and by forming the bottom of the lining as above described it will not only closely conform to the bottom and 'crinkling or corrugating and having a closed bottom and closed sides sewed together Whereby the elasticity of the united edges is preserved.

2. A lining for vessels consisting of paper rendered elastic by crinkling or corrugating and having the meeting edges at the side and bottom sewed together whereby said side and bottom will be united Without detracting from the elasticity of the united edges of the paper.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JAMES ARKELL.

W'itnesses:

GEORGE H. SMITH, HELEN E. HART. 

